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...Bravo to middle-income Americans who can devise a way to use their own tax dollars to help themselves-it sure doesn't happen often...
Where do you start? Do you compare this season's record (22-7) with last year's (17-18), say "Bravo, guys!", and leave it at that? Do you talk about All Those Freshmen and a rebuilding period that was less than a season long? Do you hysterically point out that a ballclub that wasn't even listed in the New England Top 15 at the end of 1976 found itself rated number 3 in the circuit 12 months later...
...problem began as workers were performing maintenance operations on a well at Phillips Petroleum Co.'s Platform Bravo, a stilt-legged rig some 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Norway. Usually crews conduct these periodic "workovers" by closing the valves on the "Christmas tree," or top part of the well, pumping heavy mud down the well shaft to force the oil back to its underground reservoir, and then sealing the well with a cap called a blowout preventer. This time, as the crew worked to fasten the blowout preventer, pressure in the well unexpectedly built up and blew...
...Bravo, whispered the traditionalists behind their white gloves. But from somewhere "out there," as they say in the drawing rooms, came an avalanche of letters to the Washington Star supporting Carter. Miss Beale was even upbraided by phone callers, which convinced her more than ever that Carter was a threat to propriety and excellence...
...substitutes. Celestial Seasonings in Boulder, Colo., offers two: Roastaroma Mocha Spice, made of roasted barley, malt, chicory, dandelion root, carob and spices; and Morning Thunder, a concoction of black tea and a South American herb called yerba mate. An Orlando, Fla., businessman, George Sarantakos, is getting ready to market Bravo, an herbal mix that can be drunk alone or used to stretch out real coffee. It tastes like supermarket instant and, says Sarantakos, is made partly from "weeds we can pick up anywhere...